University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IAPapers:
1932-1968, 7 linear feet.
The vast majority of the Frederick Biermann Collection relates
to his career in Congress. Correspondence files, with letters from Guy M.
Gillette, Earl W. Hall, Herschel C. Loveless, and W.W. Waymack, comprise the
bulk of the papers. The rest of the collection is made up of speeches and
campaign materials. The subjects discussed range from New Deal programs such as
the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the Works Progress Administration to
Frederick Biermanns newspaper, the
Decorah Journal; Democratic politics to farm relief;
postmasterships to taxes. A finding aid is available in the repository and
online.

Papers:
1937, 1 item.
A letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Fred Biermann written on
November 12, 1937. In the letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt writes concerning
postmaster examinations and the Pamspeck bill.

Papers:
1938, 1 item.
A letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Frederick Biermann
written on October 20, 1938. In the letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt writes
concerning U.S. interests in the Palestine problem.

Papers:
1956, 1 item.
A letter from Adlai E. Stevenson to Frederick Biermann written
on August 10, 1956. In the letter, Adlai Stevenson writes concerning the
...special mission and strength... to be shown by the Democratic party at the
National convention in Chicago.

Papers:
1959, 1 item.
A letter from Fred Biermann to John F. Kennedy written on May
6, 1959. In the letter, Fred Biermann comments on the Kennedy-Erwin
Labor-Management Reform Bill.

Papers:
In the Edwin Thomas Meredith Papers, 1898-1949, 25 linear
feet.
Other authors include Frederick Biermann. The collection is
also available on microfilm.